29 Best Satire Books
Satire is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Satire audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 29 Satire audiobooks below.
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Slow Horses
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrator: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 10 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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4.64(61 ratings)
4.64(61 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDWelcome to the thrilling and unnervingly prescient world of the slow horses. This team of MI5 agents is united by one common bond: They’ve screwed up royally and will do anything to redeem themselves. London, England. Slough House is whereWelcome to the thrilling and unnervingly prescient world of the slow horses. This team of MI5 agents is united by one common bond: They’ve screwed up royally and will do anything to redeem themselves.
London, England. Slough House is where washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what’s left of their failed careers. The “slow horses,” as they’re called, have all disgraced themselves in some way to get relegated there. Maybe they botched an Op so badly they can’t be trusted anymore. Maybe they got in the way of an ambitious colleague and had the rug yanked out from under them. Maybe they just got too dependent on the bottle–not unusual in this line of work.
One thing they have in common, though, is they want to be back in the action. And most of them would do anything to get there-even if it means having to collaborate with one another.
When a young man is abducted and his kidnappers threaten to broadcast his beheading live on the internet, the slow horses see an opportunity to redeem themselves. But is the victim really who he appears to be?
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Dr. Grass
- By: Grania Davis
- Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 6 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.4(5 ratings)
4.4(5 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDAn MD as outrageous as your doctor’s bill Ernie Spiegelglass gets high, gets involved, and is about to complete his residency … he hopes. Brash, brilliant, and often profane, Ernie (alias Doc Sparrowgrass) enters the world of a SanAn MD as outrageous as your doctor’s bill
Ernie Spiegelglass gets high, gets involved, and is about to complete his residency … he hopes.
Brash, brilliant, and often profane, Ernie (alias Doc Sparrowgrass) enters the world of a San Francisco clinic and turns the entire place upside down with his riotous romances and his own unique style–which includes treating patients like people. The medical establishment is turned off to his idea of medicine–from the heart, not by the book–but Ernie can’t turn his back on anyone who comes to him for help, even if it means jeopardizing his career.
Dr. Grass is a funny, honest, poignant book about a refugee from the 1960’s growing up and not selling out in the 1970’s.
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Vernon Subutex 1
- By: Virginie Despentes
- Narrator: Christopher Harper
- Length: 10 hours 38 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: November 05, 2019
- Language: English
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4.27(19 ratings)
4.27(19 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDFrom the provocative writer and filmmaker Virginie Despentes comes volume one of her acclaimed trilogy of novels, Vernon Subutex–short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize and the basis for the TV series of the same name. But who isFrom the provocative writer and filmmaker Virginie Despentes comes volume one of her acclaimed trilogy of novels, Vernon Subutex–short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize and the basis for the TV series of the same name. But who is Vernon Subutex?
Vernon Subutex was once the proprietor of Revolver, an infamous music shop in Paris, where his name was legend throughout Paris. By the 2000s, however, with the arrival of the internet and the decline in CD and vinyl sales, his shop is struggling, like so many others. When it closes, Subutex finds himself with nowhere to go and nothing to do. Before long, his savings are gone, and when the mysterious rock star who had been covering his rent suddenly drops dead of a drug overdose, Subutex finds himself launched on an epic saga of couch-surfing, boozing, and coke-snorting before finally winding up homeless. Just as he resigns himself to life as a panhandler, a throwaway comment he once made on Facebook takes the internet by storm.
The word is out: Subutex is lugging around a bunch of VHS tapes shot by that same dead rock musician–his last recordings on this earth. Soon a crowd of wild characters, from screen writers to social media groupies, from porn stars to failed musicians to random misfits, are hot on Vernon’s trail . . . but Vernon is none the wiser.
“Virginie Despentes’s Vernon Subutex trilogy is the zeitgeistiest thing I ever read. Everything about it is contemporary, right down to the fearless woman author who doesn’t think of herself as a feminist and gives an impression at least in interviews of habitually killing rapists.” –Nell Zink, Bustle, “The Best Books Of The 2010s”
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Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit
- By: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrator: Jonathan Cecil
- Length: 5 hours 40 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2011
- Language: English
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4.22(6517 ratings)
4.22(6517 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDWhen Bertie Wooster goes to stay with his Aunt Dahlia at Brinkley Court and unexpectedly becomes engaged to the imperious Lady Florence Craye, disaster threatens from all sides. While Florence tries to cultivate Bertie’s mind, her formerWhen Bertie Wooster goes to stay with his Aunt Dahlia at Brinkley Court and unexpectedly becomes engaged to the imperious Lady Florence Craye, disaster threatens from all sides.
While Florence tries to cultivate Bertie’s mind, her former fiance, hefty ex-policeman “Stilton” Cheesewright, threatens to beat his body to a pulp, and her new admirer, the bleating poet Percy Gorringe, tries to borrow a thousand pounds.
To cap it all, there’s a jewelry heist; plus, Bertie has incurred the disapproval of Jeeves by growing a mustache. All in all, it’s a classic Wodehouse farce.
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Monday Starts on Saturday
- By: Arkady Strugatsky
- Narrator: Ramiz Monsef
- Length: 8 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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4.2(1085 ratings)
4.2(1085 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDSasha, a young computer programmer from Leningrad, is driving north to meet some friends for a nature vacation. He picks up a couple of hitchhikers, who persuade him to take a job at the National Institute for the Technology of Witchcraft andSasha, a young computer programmer from Leningrad, is driving north to meet some friends for a nature vacation. He picks up a couple of hitchhikers, who persuade him to take a job at the National Institute for the Technology of Witchcraft and Thaumaturgy.
The adventures Sasha has in the largely dysfunctional institute involve all sorts of magical beings–a wish-granting fish, a tree mermaid, a cat who can remember only the beginnings of stories, a dream-interpreting sofa, a motorcycle that can zoom into the imagined future, a lazy dog-sized mosquito–along with a variety of wizards (including Merlin), vampires, and officers.
First published in Russia in 1965, Monday Starts on Saturday has become the most popular Strugatsky novel in their homeland. Like the works of Gogol and Kafka, it tackles the nature of institutions–here focusing on one devoted to discovering and perfecting human happiness. By turns wildly imaginative, hilarious, and disturbing, Monday Starts on Saturday is a comic masterpiece by two of the world’s greatest science fiction writers.
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The Mating Season
- By: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrator: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 7 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2006
- Language: English
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4.18(6483 ratings)
4.18(6483 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDWhen Gussie Fink-Nottle, after a convivial evening with “Catsmeat” Pinbright, was sentenced to fourteen days for wading in the fountain at Trafalgar Square, Bertie Wooster saw the red light. For Gussie was an expected guest at DeverillWhen Gussie Fink-Nottle, after a convivial evening with “Catsmeat” Pinbright, was sentenced to fourteen days for wading in the fountain at Trafalgar Square, Bertie Wooster saw the red light. For Gussie was an expected guest at Deverill Hall, and clearly his enforced absence would give rise to immediate inquiries. From this point it would be but a short step to a complete revelation of the scandalous details of his escapade, and Bertram well knew what would be the effect of this intelligence on Gussie’s fianc+(r)e, Madeline. As always when a rift appeared in her love affairs, Madeline would transfer her simpering affection to Bertram, and the grim prospect of having to endure the grand passion of this female stimulated Bertie to the sternest of endeavors to forestall catastrophe. But as usual, Bertie’s involvement causes further entanglement, which only Jeeves can unravel.
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Remarkably Great
- By: Heather Grace Stewart
- Narrator: Paige McKinney
- Length: 6 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: March 10, 2020
- Language: English
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4.18(33 ratings)
4.18(33 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDIn this hilarious sequel to Strangely, Incredibly Good, Cat Glamour struggles to help her sister, who’s a bit of a texting addict, her twenty-year-old daughter, who has fallen in with the wrong crowd, and her ninety-four-year-old grandmother,In this hilarious sequel to Strangely, Incredibly Good, Cat Glamour struggles to help her sister, who’s a bit of a texting addict, her twenty-year-old daughter, who has fallen in with the wrong crowd, and her ninety-four-year-old grandmother, who’s a feisty ex-reality-television-star with the Twitter handle @BadAssGram. Will Cat be able to help her wacky family out without neglecting her own needs?
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Blandings Castle and Elsewhere
- By: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrator: James Saxon
- Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2012
- Language: English
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4.14(493 ratings)
4.14(493 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDHere are a dozen stories to delight all Wodehouse addicts…A crooning tenor is attempting to captivate the affections of the Rev. Rupert Bingham’s fiancee, Lord Emsworth is striving to remove a pumpkin-shaped blot on the familyHere are a dozen stories to delight all Wodehouse addicts…A crooning tenor is attempting to captivate the affections of the Rev. Rupert Bingham’s fiancee, Lord Emsworth is striving to remove a pumpkin-shaped blot on the family escutcheon, the Hon. Freddie Threepwood is making a last-ditch attempt to convert Lady Alcester to the beneficial quality of Donaldson’s Dog-Joy, and in the bar-parlor of the Anglers’ Rest, Mr. Mulliner fascinates everyone with the secret history of old Hollywood.
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Miss Mapp
- By: E. F. Benson
- Narrator: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 8 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2006
- Language: English
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4.13(1701 ratings)
4.13(1701 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDMiss Elizabeth Mapp, magnificent grande dame and heiress, is always on the lookout lest her neighbors fall outside the bounds of perfect, exemplary manners. Opera glasses and notebook in hand, she gazes out her window, ever the vigilant sentinel.Miss Elizabeth Mapp, magnificent grande dame and heiress, is always on the lookout lest her neighbors fall outside the bounds of perfect, exemplary manners. Opera glasses and notebook in hand, she gazes out her window, ever the vigilant sentinel. But her tightly controlled world is soon beset on all sides by interlopers, first in the disturbingly masculine form of two very different retired army officers–both of whom are anything but retiring in their conflicting aims upon her heart. Second, there appears the elegant, insidiously evil shape of a ravishing Contessa possessed of dazzling charm and diabolical designs. Can Mapp, super-strategist of the drawing room and experienced provocateur of amorous intrigue, overcome all obstacles and be united with the object of her matrimonial desires? Whom could she possibly choose: the solid, traditional Major Flint or the mysteriously attractive Captain Puffin?
This wonderfully humrous satire of British high society introduces one of E. F. Benson’s most beloved characters.
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Young Men in Spats
- By: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrator: Jonathan Cecil
- Length: 6 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2001
- Language: English
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4.12(812 ratings)
4.12(812 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDFrom the author whom the Times called “a comic genius” and “an old master of farce” come eleven further stories featuring such eccentric characters as Freddie Widgeon, Cyril (Barmy) Fotheringay Phipps, Percy Wimbolt, andFrom the author whom the Times called “a comic genius” and “an old master of farce” come eleven further stories featuring such eccentric characters as Freddie Widgeon, Cyril (Barmy) Fotheringay Phipps, Percy Wimbolt, and Pongo. This collection includes the stories “Fate,” “Tried in the Furnace,” “Trouble Down at Tudsleigh,” “The Amazing Hat Mystery,” “Goodbye to All Cats,” “The Luck of the Stiffhams,” “Noblesse Oblige,” “Uncle Fred Flits By,” “Archibald and the Masses,” “The Code of the Mulliners,” and “The Fiery Wooing of Mordred.”
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The Lyre of Orpheus
- By: Robertson Davies
- Narrator: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 14 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2009
- Language: English
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4.12(2897 ratings)
4.12(2897 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.95 USDThe Cornish Foundation is thriving under the directorship of Arthur Cornish when he and his beguiling wife, Maria Theotoky, decide to undertake a project worthy of the late art expert, collector, and notable eccentric Francis Cornish, whose vastThe Cornish Foundation is thriving under the directorship of Arthur Cornish when he and his beguiling wife, Maria Theotoky, decide to undertake a project worthy of the late art expert, collector, and notable eccentric Francis Cornish, whose vast fortune endows the Foundation. It is decided that the Foundation will fund the doctoral work of one Hulda Schnakenburg, a grumpy, remarkably unattractive, and extraordinarily talented music student. Her task is to complete the score of an unfinished opera by the Romantic composer E. T. A. Hoffmann. Additionally, and against all common sense, the Foundation will endeavor to stage the opera, entitledArthur of Britain, or The Magnanimous Cuckold. The scholarly priest Simon Darcourt finds himself charged with writing the libretto.
As the production takes shape, complications both practical and emotional arise: the gypsy in Maria’s blood rises with a vengeance; Darcourt stoops to petty crime; and various others indulge in perjury, blackmail, and other unsavory pursuits. Hoffman’s dictum, “The lyre of Orpheus opens the door of the underworld,” proves all too true–especially when the long-hidden secrets of Francis Cornish himself are finally revealed.
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Something Fresh
- By: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrator: Jonathan Cecil
- Length: 7 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2011
- Language: English
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4.1(7511 ratings)
4.1(7511 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.95 USDWelcome to Blandings Castle, a place that is never itself without an imposter. Wodehouse himself once noted that “Blandings has impostors like other houses have mice.” On this particular occasion there are two, both intent on a dangerousWelcome to Blandings Castle, a place that is never itself without an imposter.
Wodehouse himself once noted that “Blandings has impostors like other houses have mice.” On this particular occasion there are two, both intent on a dangerous enterprise. Lord Emsworth’s secretary, the Efficient Baxter, is on the alert and determined to discover what is afoot–despite the distractions caused by the Honorable Freddie Threepwood’s hapless affair of the heart.
Freddie is engaged to marry the daughter of a wealthy American who is a passionate collector of ancient Egyptian scarabs. When one goes missing, a thousand-pound reward is offered for its return and Blandings becomes a madhouse as friends turn rivals in the scramble to retrieve the object.
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Oblivion
- By: David Foster Wallace
- Narrator: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 14 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: August 07, 2012
- Language: English
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4.07(12092 ratings)
4.07(12092 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.98 USDIn the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness — a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his. These are worlds undreamt of by any otherIn the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness — a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his.... Read moreThese are worlds undreamt of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father’s desperate loneliness by way of his son’s daydreaming through a teacher’s homicidal breakdown (The Soul Is Not a Smithy). Or could explore the deepest and most hilarious aspects of creativity by delineating the office politics surrounding a magazine profile of an artist who produces miniature sculptures in an anatomically inconceivable way (The Suffering Channel). Or capture the ache of love’s breakdown in the painfully polite apologies of a man who believes his wife is hallucinating the sound of his snoring (Oblivion).
Each of these stories is a complete world, as fully imagined as most entire novels, at once preposterously surreal and painfully immediate.
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The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
- By: Max Shulman
- Narrator: George Newbern
- Length: 6 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: July 12, 2016
- Language: English
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4.06(174 ratings)
4.06(174 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDIncluding stories first published in Cosmopolitan and theSaturday Evening Post, this bestselling collection follows the romantic escapades of Max Shulman’s famed collegiate Don Juan. Like most undergraduates, Dobie Gillis is a bitIncluding stories first published in Cosmopolitan and theSaturday Evening Post, this bestselling collection follows the romantic escapades of Max Shulman’s famed collegiate Don Juan. Like most undergraduates, Dobie Gillis is a bit scattered-sometimes he’s as quick as a whip, other times dull as a doorstop, and his major keeps changing from chemistry to law to journalism. But no matter what subject he should be studying, Dobie always has a girl on his mind.
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Unconditional Surrender
- By: Evelyn Waugh
- Narrator: Christian Rodska
- Length: 8 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: December 11, 2012
- Language: English
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4.05(321 ratings)
4.05(321 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.98 USDBy 1941, after serving in North Africa and Crete, Guy Crouchback has lost his Halberdier idealism. A desk job in London gives him the chance of reconciliation with his former wife. Then, in Yugoslavia, as a liaison officer with the partisans, CrouchBy 1941, after serving in North Africa and Crete, Guy Crouchback has lost his Halberdier idealism. A desk job in London gives him the chance of reconciliation with his former wife. Then, in Yugoslavia, as a liaison officer with the partisans, Crouch becomes finally and fully aware of the futility of a war he once saw in terms of honor.... Read moreUnconditional Surrender is the third novel in Waugh’s brilliant Sword of Honor trilogy recording the tumultuous wartime adventures of Guy Crouchback (“the finest work of fiction in English to emerge from World War II”-Atlantic Monthly), which also comprises Men at Arms and Officers and Gentlemen.
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Boom Town
- By: Garrison Keillor
- Narrator: Garrison Keillor
- Length: 12 hours 22 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.04(169 ratings)
4.04(169 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDReturn to America’s most beloved fictional hometown! Lake Wobegon is having a boom year thanks to millennial entrepreneurship–AuntMildred’s.com Gourmet Meatloaf, for example, or Universal Fire, makers of artisanal firewood seasonedReturn to America’s most beloved fictional hometown! Lake Wobegon is having a boom year thanks to millennial entrepreneurship–AuntMildred’s.com Gourmet Meatloaf, for example, or Universal Fire, makers of artisanal firewood seasoned with sea salt. Meanwhile, the author flies in to give eulogies at the funerals of five classmates, including a couple whom he disliked, and he finds a wave of narcissism crashing on the rocks of Lutheran stoicism. He is restored by the humor and grace of his old girlfriend Arlene and a visit from his wife, Giselle, who arrives from New York for a big love scene in an old lake cabin.
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A Dirty Job
- By: Christopher Moore
- Narrator: Fisher Stevens
- Length: 11 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: March 28, 2006
- Language: English
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4.03(105750 ratings)
4.03(105750 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDCharlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. They’re even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie’s doing okay–until people startCharlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. They’re even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie’s doing okay–until people start dropping dead around him, and everywhere he goes a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Charlie Asher, it seems, has been recruited for a new position: as Death.
It’s a dirty job. But, hey! Somebody’s gotta do it.
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Entrapment, and Other Writings
- By: Nelson Algren
- Narrator: Richard Poe
- Length: 9 hours 33 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.02(47 ratings)
4.02(47 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDNelson Algren sought humanity in the urban wilderness of postwar America, where his powerful voice rose from behind the billboards and down tin-can alleys, from among the marginalized and ignored, the outcasts and scapegoats, the punks and junkies,Nelson Algren sought humanity in the urban wilderness of postwar America, where his powerful voice rose from behind the billboards and down tin-can alleys, from among the marginalized and ignored, the outcasts and scapegoats, the punks and junkies, the whores and down-on-their luck gamblers, the punch-drunk boxers and skid-row drunkies and kids who knew they’d never reach the age of twenty-one: all of them admirable in Algren’s eyes for their vitality and no-bullshit forthrightness, their insistence on living and their ability to find a laugh and a dream in the unlikeliest places.
In Entrapment and Other Writings–containing his unfinished novel and previously unpublished or uncollected stories, poems, and essays–Algren speaks to our time as few of his fellow great American writers of the 1940s and ’50s do, in part because he hasn’t yet been accepted and assimilated into the American literary canon, despite that he is held up as a talismanic figure. “You should not read [Algren] if you can’t take a punch,” Ernest Hemingway declared. “Mr. Algren can hit with both hands and move around and he will kill you if you are not awfully careful.”
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Suburbia Made Me Do It
- By: Ashley Fontainne
- Narrator: Andrea Emmes
- Length: 6 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4(2 ratings)
4(2 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDMy name is Roxy Davenport–the epitome of a suburban housewife. For over twenty-five years, I have based my entire life off the ancient, mental code of ethics passed down from previous generations that I secretly nicknamed The SuburbiaMy name is Roxy Davenport–the epitome of a suburban housewife.
For over twenty-five years, I have based my entire life off the ancient, mental code of ethics passed down from previous generations that I secretly nicknamed The Suburbia Handbook.
High school sweethearts must marry and the wife is to stay at home and raise the children while the husband brings home the bacon. All married couples must procreate and raise, at a minimum, two and a half children, preferably staggered in ages by three years. A woman’s job as housewife is to maintain a pleasant, always spotless home for her family. Check. Housewives must service their husband’s needs when the man’s urges overtake him, no matter how tired, sick, in pain, or stressed the wife feels.
For over twenty years, I adhered to the strict rules–until now.
After a series of traumatic events, my life spirals out of control, destroying each and every archaic, foundational rule.
Except Rule Number Eleven: One must defend their family, no matter what. This rule trumps everything else, even if the defense comes in the form of bodily harm to another.
Or until death do us part.
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The Complete Stories
- By: Evelyn Waugh
- Narrator: Simon Prebble
- Length: 17 hours 18 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: December 11, 2012
- Language: English
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3.99(815 ratings)
3.99(815 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.98 USDA “lavishly entertaining” (Publishers Weekly) distillation of Waugh’s genius–abundant evidence that one of the twentieth century’s most admired and enjoyed English novelists was also a master of the short form.EvelynA “lavishly entertaining” (Publishers Weekly) distillation of Waugh’s genius–abundant evidence that one of the twentieth century’s most admired and enjoyed English novelists was also a master of the short form.Evelyn Waugh’s short fiction reveals in miniaturized perfection the elements that made him the greatest satirist of the twentieth century. The stories collected here range from delightfully barbed portraits of the British upper classes to an alternative ending to Waugh’s novel A Handful of Dust; from a “missing chapter” in the life of Charles Ryder, the nostalgic hero of Brideshead Revisited, to a plot-packed morality tale that Waugh composed at a very tender age; from an epistolary lark in the voice of “a young lady of leisure” to a darkly comic tale of scandal in a remote (and imaginary) African outpost.... Read more -
Psychos: A White Girl Problems Book
- By: Babe Walker
- Narrator: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 6 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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3.99(3484 ratings)
3.99(3484 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDIn this hysterical follow-up to the New York Times bestseller White Girl Problems, Babe Walker travels the globe as she tries to figure out the answer to the question foremost on everyone’s mind–including hers: Who is Babe Walker?IfIn this hysterical follow-up to the New York Times bestseller White Girl Problems, Babe Walker travels the globe as she tries to figure out the answer to the question foremost on everyone’s mind–including hers: Who is Babe Walker?
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If you’re one of the hundreds of thousands who devoured Babe Walker’s New York Times bestselling novel White Girl Problems or one of the million people who read her blog or follow her on Twitter daily, then you’ve obviously been waiting with bated breath for her hilarious follow-up novel, Psychos.
Fresh from a four-month stint in rehab for her “alleged” shopping addiction, Babe Walker returns home to Bel Air ten pounds lighter (thanks to a stomach virus), having made amends (she told a counselor with bad skin she was smart) and confronted her past (after meeting her birth mother for the first time–a fashion model turned farmer lesbian). Although delighted to be home and determined to maintain her hard-won inner peace, Babe now faces a host of outside forces seemingly intent on derailing her path to positive change. Not only is she being trailed by an anonymous stalker, but she’s also reunited with the love of her life, a relationship that she cannot seem to stop self-sabotaging.
Babe’s newfound spirituality, coupled with her faith in the universe and its messages, leads her all over the world: shoulder dancing in Paris, tripping out in Amsterdam, and hooking up in the Mediterranean, only to land her back in New York City, forced to choose between a man who is perfect in every way (except for one small detail) and a man who could be The One if only he didn’t drive Babe to utter insanity.
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Animal Farm
- By: George Orwell
- Narrator: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 3 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2007
- Language: English
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3.98(1104355 ratings)
3.98(1104355 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0011.95 USDGeorge Orwell’s classic satire of the Russian Revolution has become an intimate part of our contemporary culture, with its treatment of democratic, fascist, and socialist ideals through an animal fable. The animals of Mr. Jones’s ManorGeorge Orwell’s classic satire of the Russian Revolution has become an intimate part of our contemporary culture, with its treatment of democratic, fascist, and socialist ideals through an animal fable.
The animals of Mr. Jones’s Manor Farm are overworked, mistreated, and desperately seeking a reprieve. In their quest to create an idyllic society where justice and equality reign, the animals of Manor Farm revolt against their human rulers, establishing the democratic Animal Farm under the credo, “All Animals Are Created Equal.” Out of their cleverness, the pigs–Napoleon, Squealer, and Snowball–emerge as leaders of the new community. In a development of insidious familiarity, the pigs begin to assume ever greater amounts of power, while other animals, especially the faithful horse Boxer, assume more of the work. The climax of the story results in a brutal betrayal, when totalitarian rule is reestablished with the bloodstained postscript to the founding slogan: “But Some Animals Are More Equal than Others.”
This astonishing allegory, one of the most scathing satires in literary history, remains as fresh and relevant as the day it was published.
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American Babe
- By: Babe Walker
- Narrator: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 5 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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3.97(1076 ratings)
3.97(1076 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDAuthor of the New York Times bestseller White Girl Problems and Psychos, Babe Walker, faces her most daunting challenge yet–suburbia–in the third caustically witty White Girl Problems book.Babe Walker thought she had done it all. AfterAuthor of the New York Times bestseller White Girl Problems and Psychos, Babe Walker, faces her most daunting challenge yet–suburbia–in the third caustically witty White Girl Problems book.
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Babe Walker thought she had done it all. After all, she’s survived the highly exclusive social hierarchies of Bel Air, traipsed around Europe in true white-girl fashion, and left her mark on several of the best rehab facilities in the United States. But now Babe is about to enter a terrifying new world: Middle America.
After a freak accident that was definitely not Babe’s fault, her estranged mother offers her the perfect escape from LA: an invite to her grandfather’s eightieth birthday party in Maryland, of all places. Babe’s journey throws her headlong into elementary school classrooms full of small, unfashionable people and pizza buffet restaurants that will haunt her nightmares and eventually back to Los Angeles, thank goodness. Tossed together with her cousins–basic preteen Cara and mature and preternaturally stylish Knox–Babe learns that connecting with someone on an intimate, familial level might be the most rewarding experience there is…
Besides being thin, of course.
Hysterical, unapologetic, and as unfiltered as ever, Babe Walker proves again to be the “urban socialite you love to hate” (Time), and she can only hope the population is ready for American Babe. -
Stormy Weather
- By: Carl Hiaasen
- Narrator: Carl Hiaasen
- Length: 14 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 05, 2004
- Language: English
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3.96(14052 ratings)
3.96(14052 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDCarl Hiaasen, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author, has earned a reputation for perceptive, sharp-edged suspense that also cuts to the bone of environmental issues. His novels have been translated into many languages and areCarl Hiaasen, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author, has earned a reputation for perceptive, sharp-edged suspense that also cuts to the bone of environmental issues. His novels have been translated into many languages and are touted worldwide for their quirky characters and surreal adventures set in the ravaged cultural wasteland of southern Florida. Stormy Weather centers on the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew. The devastation of the storm has attracted crowds of voyeurs and impostors to Florida. Drawn by the chance to prey on Andrew’s victims, misfits like the murderous ex-con Snapper and the dangerously seductive Edie find easy targets for their insurance scams. They’re not prepared, though, when they meet their opposition, led by a hoary ex-governor who smokes toads. Both hilariously funny and deadly accurate, Carl Hiaasen’s novel will take you into a Florida that is far from the frilly palms and pink flamingos of its post cards. Strap on your seatbelt. Stormy Weather is an unforgettable, turbulent ride.
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Reinhardt’s Garden
- By: Mark Haber
- Length: 4 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: October 29, 2019
- Language: English
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3.96(176 ratings)
3.96(176 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0012.99 USDDark satire and skewed history converge in this debut novel as Jacov Reinhardt and his scribe cross continents in search of a legendary prophet of melancholic philosophy. -
Officers and Gentlemen
- By: Evelyn Waugh
- Narrator: Christian Rodska
- Length: 8 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: December 11, 2012
- Language: English
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3.96(1688 ratings)
3.96(1688 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.98 USDThe “wise, amusing, and beautifully written” (Commonweal) second installment in Evelyn Waugh’s masterful trilogy of World War Two novels. Fueled by idealism and eagerness to contribute to the war effort, Guy Crouchback becomes... Read moreThe “wise, amusing, and beautifully written” (Commonweal) second installment in Evelyn Waugh’s masterful trilogy of World War Two novels.Fueled by idealism and eagerness to contribute to the war effort, Guy Crouchback becomes attached to a commando unit undergoing training on the Hebridean isle of Mugg, where the whisky flows freely and respect must be paid to the laird. But the comedy of Mugg is soon followed by the bitterness of Crete, where chaos reigns and a difficult evacuation must be accomplished.Officers and Gentlemen is the second novel in Waugh’s brilliant Sword of Honor trilogy recording the tumultuous wartime adventures of Guy Crouchback (called “the finest work of fiction in English to emerge from World War II” by the Atlantic Monthly), which also comprises Men at Arms and Unconditional Surrender. -
Native Tongue
- By: Carl Hiaasen
- Narrator: Carl Hiaasen
- Length: 15 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: June 13, 2008
- Language: English
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3.96(13440 ratings)
3.96(13440 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDEx-reporter Joe Winder had been working in the public relations department of a sleazy family entertainment park, The Amazing Kingdom of Thrills, when he chanced upon a news-breaking story inspired by the disappearance of two blue-tongued voles andEx-reporter Joe Winder had been working in the public relations department of a sleazy family entertainment park, The Amazing Kingdom of Thrills, when he chanced upon a news-breaking story inspired by the disappearance of two blue-tongued voles and the bizarre death of Orky, the killer whale.
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Becoming Nigerian
- By: Elnathan John
- Length: 3 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 04, 2020
- Language: English
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3.93(435 ratings)
3.93(435 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0010.99 USDIn Be(com)ing Nigerian: A Guide, Elnathan John provides an affecting, unrestrained and satirical guide to the Nigerians you will meet at home and abroad, or on your way to hell and to heaven. It is a searing look at how power is performed,In Be(com)ing Nigerian: A Guide, Elnathan John provides an affecting, unrestrained and satirical guide to the
Nigerians you will meet at home and abroad, or on your way to hell and to heaven. It is a searing look at how power
is performed, negotiated and abused in private and in public; in politics, business, religious institutions and in homes.
From the exploration of religious hypocrisy to inequality in matters of the heart, the collection is a jab at Nigerian
society and what it means to be a Nigerian. Beyond poking fun at the holders of power, it is also a summons, a
provocation and a call for introspection among all levels of society. As is often said in Nigeria, when you point with
one finger, there are four others pointing back at you.This engrossing read is a must-have for Nigerians on how to move beyond shame and arrogance, and for nonNigerians, a uniquely informative guide on how to accept their awe and envy of Nigerians. It is an invitation for
everyone to embrace and rejoice in their inner Nigerian.Here is your definitive guide to Be(com)ing Nigerian.
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Babe Walker: Thirsty
- By: Babe Walker
- Narrator: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 2 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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3.93(310 ratings)
3.93(310 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.009.99 USDOn what should be a romantic trip to California wine country, Babe realizes there’s something off with her new lust-at-first-sight-lover, Jack–something she can’t get past, even with all his inherited wealth. So she decides to takeOn what should be a romantic trip to California wine country, Babe realizes there’s something off with her new lust-at-first-sight-lover, Jack–something she can’t get past, even with all his inherited wealth. So she decides to take matters into her own hands and toss him to the curb to enjoy the rest of her vacation.
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What she doesn’t expect is to run into her old high school nemesis Tina, whose life is at rock bottom. Babe’s frozen heart is warmed by Tina’s plight as a struggling winemaker. Armed with a pair of Louis Vuittons that would look fabulous crushing grapes if she felt like it (she doesn’t), Babe decides to bring her no-apologies approach and street-smarts to Tina’s vineyard to help her revitalize her business in her most selfless act yet. The always hilarious, upfront, and basic yet delusional Babe Walker is everything you hate to love and love to hate. Just don’t call her Thirsty.
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